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| Subject: YaY! Sri Lankan army chief hailed last year as a national hero for defeating the Tamil Tigers facing possible execution Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:25 pm | |
| Sri Lanka opposition leader held for 'plotting coup'
General Sarath Fonseka, 58, was forcibly arrested on charges of plotting a coup against President Rajapaksa, whom he challenged in an election last month.
Military police dragged the retired general away after storming into his campaign office in the historic centre of Colombo as he met opposition leaders to discuss how to challenge the results of the January 26 election.
The fear now is that General Fonseka’s supporters in the army, who are still thought to be many, could rebel against the Government, undermining a fragile peace that took almost three decades to achieve. “He has been arrested with his personal assistant,” one of the general’s spokesmen, now in hiding, told The Times. “We are shocked, because we thought the dust was starting to settle.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7019554.ece
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